Ever since she was a 10, Shreya Mishra Reddy dreamed of attending Harvard University.

So when she got into Harvard Business School in 2023, she couldn’t quite believe her luck.

“I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would be accepted,” she says. “Everybody at home in India was in complete celebration mode, we were overjoyed.”

But this week, just as Ms Reddy, 33, was on the cusp of graduating and achieving her lifelong ambition, everything was thrown into doubt.

On Thursday, the Trump administration revoked the university’s ability to enrol foreign students and ruled current international students have to leave the university or lose their visa status.